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Mixed-Class Co-Living: Using Social Interaction as a Design Tool to Combat Socioeconomic Segregation

Summe, Chad M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107052139896

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2021, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Socioeconomic segregation in residential neighborhoods is an occurrence that according to the Pew Research Institute, is plaguing 27 of the nation’s 30 largest major metropolitan areas. Adjacent neighborhoods which differ radically in socioeconomic status (SES) are at odds with each other; and this is best understood through a set of observable institutional and social disparities. Upon reviewing the origin, context, effects, and previously deployed solutions to these institutional and social disparities, this thesis will propose guidelines for a project that seeks to address all of the most crucial of these issues; a mixed-class co-living housing experiment as an architectural response to the enduring effects of socioeconomically disparate residential conditions. This response involves a unification of a modified community planning strategy as a response to the institutional woes, and a set of architectural design and programming principles that respond to social disparities. The institutional disparities that have allowed residential neighborhoods to be socioeconomically segregated are rooted in racial segregation, as well as income segregation or “concentration of poverty.” Mixed-income housing projects of the past may have been effective at times of achieving its primary goal of deconcentrating poverty but have not proven to be effective in addressing social issues. Instead of deconcentrating poverty with mixed-income housing, the community planning strategy for this thesis seeks to mend socioeconomically differing neighborhoods through “mixed-class” housing; this involves a mixture of residents based on not only income, but also education and occupation. This strategy will allow for a much more diverse mixture of people based on the socioeconomics of a given site, while providing a more opportunistic condition for the involved social disparities to be addressed through architecture, programming, and spatial design. The social disparities that arise from socioeconomically segregated neighborhoods decrease the likelihood for residents to engage in daily social interactions that would lead to advantageous community relationships. The architectural response incorporated in this thesis involves examining the most crucial of these issues, and proposing a series of design principles, programmatic elements, and strategic adjacencies with a focus on co-living social architecture as precedent. These strategies represent the means of encouraging more community relationships in a housing development that would house residents with a mixture of socioeconomic classes. This thesis explores the basis of dismantling institutional norms that contribute to socioeconomic segregation in broader neighborhoods through mixed-class, and how incorporating that ideal gives more validity to reinforcing diversity, engagement, and social interaction among the classes at the building scale.
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
91 p.
Architecture
mixed-class; co-living; mixed-income; social interaction; architecture; socioeconomic segregation

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  • Summe, C. M. (2021). Mixed-Class Co-Living: Using Social Interaction as a Design Tool to Combat Socioeconomic Segregation [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107052139896

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Summe, Chad. Mixed-Class Co-Living: Using Social Interaction as a Design Tool to Combat Socioeconomic Segregation. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107052139896.

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  • Summe, Chad. "Mixed-Class Co-Living: Using Social Interaction as a Design Tool to Combat Socioeconomic Segregation." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617107052139896

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